Robert Duncan McNeill credited as playing...
Ensign Tom Paris
- Neelix: [as Tomin lies in sick bay] I thought synthehol wasn't supposed to have this effect on people.
- The Doctor: Most people. The enzyymes that break down synthehol aren't present in his bloodstream.
- Neelix: Can you counteract the effects?
- The Doctor: I can synthesize the enzymes, but that'll take days.
- Neelix: Days? The Captain will be back in the morning.
- Lt. Tom Paris: Maybe he needs a cold shower.
- Neelix: If his superiors find him like this, he'll be banished from the colony, and our trade agreement will go right out the airlock!
- Tomin: Oh, Seven of mine...
- Seven of Nine: It may be possible to encode some of my nanoprobes to assimilate the synthehol molecules.
- Tomin: Assimilate me!
- [Paris tells hologram jokes to amuse Tomin]
- Tom Paris: How do you bend a hologram's ear? Use a prism. What did the councilor say to the hologram? "You're projecting!"
- [the Doctor has taken Seven out to Ambassador Tomin's reception]
- Tom Paris: Impressive. You're actually taught her to be polite, but don't think you've won our bet. She was supposed to bring a REAL date.
- The Doctor: Photons and force fields, flesh and blood - why quibble over details?
- Tomin: [shouting across the mess hall] Ensign Paris, tell us another one of those hologram jokes!
- The Doctor: You've been stealing my material?
- Tom Paris: That guy's so lubricated, he'll laugh at anything.
- The Doctor: Are you implying that Seven couldn't get a date?
- Tom Paris: What, are you kidding? Half the men on this ship would jump at the chance; but, getting a date is one thing. Keeping it from turning into a disaster is another.